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ArticleFrontiers in neuroimaging2025

Understanding false positives in control conditions: a simulation study of

Ji Hyun Ko

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Article in Frontiers in neuroimaging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ji Hyun KoDepartment of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are essential for evaluating treatment efficacy, typically comparing active interventions to control conditions. In situations where blinding is impractical-such as in psychological therapies or physical rehabilitation-waitlist controls are often used to account for natural symptom progression and test-retest variability. This study examines the biases introduced by

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Berkson’s paradoxcontrol conditionsfalse positivesinteraction effectssimulationtest–retest

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PMID41426613
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